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BALTIMORE -- Mark Miles, CEO of the company that oversees the Izod IndyCar Series, said Sunday that he's confident the series will return to Baltimore in 2014.

"It looks like we'll be able to find a workable date next year," Miles told USA TODAY Sports before the start of Sunday's Grand Prix of Baltimore. "My bigger concern is the next year and the year after that. We really don't want to be bouncing around from date to date."

The third running of the race through the streets of downtown Baltimore's Inner Harbor district has been shrouded in questions about its future. The Labor Day weekend won't be available in 2014 because of the Ohio State-Navy football game at nearby M&T Bank Stadium.

In 2015, the Baltimore Convention Center, which houses the IndyCar paddock and race headquarters, is booked with an American Legion convention on Labor Day weekend.

Miles and other IndyCar leaders met Saturday with city leaders and race promoters to try to find a weekend for next year's race.

"Everybody is focused on 2014 and thereafter," Miles said. "I see a couple options for '14 that will work that aren't this (Labor Day) weekend. I'm more focused on the fact that we're going to disrupt our calendar to a big extent from the series' point of view and the city's point of view, and then what?"

Miles reiterated IndyCar's future plan to end its North American season by Labor Day, leaving few available summer weekends for the Baltimore race. Weather compatibility -- temperatures were pushing toward 100 degrees for Sunday's race -- the Baltimore Orioles and preseason Baltimore Ravens games leave IndyCar with few options.

This year, the series has just two more events – a doubleheader street race in Houston and the season finale in Fontana, Calif. – over the next seven weeks.

"What are we giving up (by ending the season on the Labor Day weekend)?" said Miles, CEO of Hulman & Co., which oversees Indianapolis Motor Speedway and INDYCAR, which operates the Izod IndyCar Series. "I don't mean that to sound disrespectful to either of the two cities where we're going to race after Labor Day, but the fact is we're in Baltimore and then we take a month off before the next race? That's not an ideal schedule."